The Family!

Currently, I am taking a class all about the family. We have been learning and researching so many things about the family, our Heavenly Father's plan for our family, why the family is so important, and so many other things.

We have been talking a lot about "The Family: A Proclamation to the World." In this amazing proclamation, our beloved prophet and the apostles talk to us about the many things that are a challenge to the family unit. We learn that each of us were made in the image of our Father in Heaven. We look just like him, because just as we learned in Genesis 1:27, "...In the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." We learn that we are the beloved spirit son or daughter of loving heavenly parents, who have created a divine nature and a divine destiny for each of us. They love us so much and we love them too.

In the pre-mortal realm, we knew and we worshipped God as our Eternal Father, we accepted his plan to come to this earth to gain a physical body and gain the earthly experience that each of us need "to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize our divine destiny as heirs of eternal life."
The first commandment that our Father in Heaven gave to Adam and Eve was to "multiply and replenish the earth." This commandment still remains in full force as it is important to our eternal life. It is further declared that "...God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife." It is affirmed of the sanctity of life and the importance that life has in God's eternal plan.
In the proclamation, we learn the outline of the family and the responsibility that a man and a woman have. A "husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children... Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, and to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and be law-abiding citizens wherever they live." We have a solemn responsibility and a sacred duty to our children. It is solemn and it is sacred. How can we or anybody ignore that it is solemn and it is so sacred to be parents of God's little children. We are promised that we as mothers and fathers, "will be held accountable before God for the discharge of our sacred obligations.
"The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan." We have a sacred duty to attend to our responsibilities that we agreed to before we came to this life. We agreed to have children someday. We agreed that we would help take care of them for time and all eternity. It matters that we uphold our side of our promise with God. We have sacred responsibilities and we are obligated to help one another as equal partners.
I believe in marriage for eternity. I know that through the sacred sealing power, I can be with my family for not only time, but I can be with them for eternity too. I know that marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman, who are legally married. I know that children are sent here, so that we can help them learn and know of our Father in Heaven and to be taught of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I know that we have a solemn responsibility and a sacred duty to our Heavenly Father's children. I know that the church is true. I have a testimony of these things because I have prayed about them and I have learned for myself that this is how God wants things.